What is NLPhenomenology™ ?

Positive Phenomenology is heavily rooted in Neuro-Linguistic Phenomenology (NLPh™), which is both an attitude and a methodology aimed at understanding the structure of subjective experience. Sourced in psychology, philosophy, and the human potential field of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and General Semantics, Neuro-Linguistic Phenomenology™ returns fully to subjective experience while acknowledging modern psychological science and philosophy. As a result, these important yet too-often-forgotten methods can now rise like a Phoenix from the Flames.

Positive Phenomenology is therefore NOT a quantitative science; it is a qualitative art. A phenomenologist is someone who studies subjective experience on its own terms. A Positive Phenomenologist does likewise, while also seeking to improve it. Therefore the aim of this art is appreciative inquiry into another human being's subjective experience so as to provide greater subjective freedom of interpretation. As the psychiatrist Viktor Frankl famously noted regarding his experiences in a concentration camp: this is the last of human freedoms.